Cruel mum who killed her son for failing to learn the Koran off by heart is jailed for life

A CRUEL mum who beat her son to death for failing to learn parts of the Koran
by heart has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 17
years.

Sara Ege, 33, was convicted of murder after it was revealed she had burned the
body of her seven-year-old boy Yaseen before trying to claim he had died in
a house fire.

But a murder trial heard she treated little Yaseen like a “dog” and repeatedly
beat him with a stick for failing to memorise religious texts quickly
enough.

Ege collapsed as the sentence was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court and had to
be helped, trembling and sobbing, from the dock.

She had been praised as a “brilliant mother” to seven-year-old Yaseen but was
convicted of his murder by a jury at the same court last month.

Passing sentence trial judge Mr Justice Wyn Williams told Ege: “What was your
motive for acting as you did? I am satisfied that, on the day of his death,
Yaseen was kept home from school so that he could dedicate himself to his
(Koran) studies.

“On that day Yaseen must have failed in some way because I am satisfied that
it was that failure which was the trigger for the beating.

“That is what you told the police in the course of your confession in July
2010 and I see no reason to doubt what you then said was true.”

Ege was found guilty of the murder of her son by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court
last month.